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On Monday, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was killed by a terrorist gunman in Ankara. The ambassador's murder has met with condemnation from politicians worldwide. But in Kiev, some lawmakers are actually celebrating the killing. Among them is Volodymyr Parasiuk, who called the ambassador's murderer a 'hero'.

Western media has transformed into a distributor of jihadist propaganda.

The British press is morphing into a mouthpiece for al-Qaeda. Consider its coverage of yesterday’s assassination of Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey. It is borderline sympathetic.

The killer’s words — or rather, certain of the killer’s words — have been turned into emotional headlines, into condemnations of Russia’s actions in Syria.

That the killer’s first and loudest cry was ‘Allahu Akbar’ — the holler of the modern terrorist — has been downplayed, and in the case of at least one newspaper, the Express, completely ignored.Instead the papers upfront the killer’s other cries, about Aleppo.

‘This is for Aleppo’, says The Times.

‘Remember Aleppo’, says the Mirror’s headline, but with no quote marks, because these were not the exact words spoken by the gunman — they’re more like the Mirror’s own sympathetic echo of the killer’s sentiment.

Then Western intelligence agents and virtually the entire Western media found themselves on the same side as the Mujahideen in Bosnia in the 1990s, both sides utterly devoted to a good-and-evil script in which the Serbs were the new Nazis deserving of being bombed by NATO (in the eyes of Western observers) or beheaded (in the eyes of the Mujahideen).

And now, again, Western elements are aligning, at least, with jihadists in Syria, both deriving a sense of moral purpose from being against Evil, against Russia, against Assad.